SA Farm's journal

The incubator is now running and I'll be adding eggs tomorrow evening! So excited!
Well, the husky momma we took in has been seriously weaning her puppies now. Poor little guys, they act like they are starving all the time! I'm feeding them 3 times a day with soft food, but I think they can handle the regular stuff, so I'm going to start feeding them 4 times with regular kibble and see how they do.

Still no kids or kits!

Cheeki is doing well. He's practically finger trained already and I took him out of his cage several times today. Nevermind that the 'professionals' recommend waiting 2 weeks to bring them out. Who could wait when he's so sweet and wants to come out and play?

I'm determined to get my turkeys out this weekend. The weather is finally getting nice enough that they need to be out and spread their wings and breed so they can make beautiful little turkey poults for me
If it warms up enough, I'll clean out all my enclosures this weekend too, so I may not be on much this coming week. We'll see how it goes. I'll try to pop in anyway (especially if there are any babies to post about) but we'll see how it goes. It's March break, so I'll be busy with all my little nieces and nephews! How could they not want to come over with all the babies and cute animals to play with?

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Well, the incubator is cleaned up now. I also cleaned up my bird cage and moved the bunny out of it
I lost my mind a few days ago (I blame the weather) and brought home a new baby....Budgie!
Meet Cheeki, the 10 week old budgie baby:
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Yes, I am absolutely insane! No, I have absolutely no intention of stopping
It's nice to have a buddy. Most of my animals are livestock, so it's fun having a little tiny bird pet to snuggle with and enjoy the chirping and adorableness!

Franny was looking a little more ready this morning. Ligaments are still there, but her stomach looks like it's dropped a bit, so I'm hoping she's getting closer. Stubborn doe.

Nothing else new right now

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Cheeki is so cute. I'll pm you my address and you send him on over to me, okay? Good.

Today was a long and busy day! It was house cleaning day, always a challenge, so dishes done, floor cleaned, garbage taken out, tidy up, etc. Then I decide, no, that's not enough work for me today, I'm also going to start getting my turkey fencing up by myself in the snow, in running shoes, because I'm insane
So I get up about 50 feet of fencing and have meanwhile been going back and forth from the shed, to the house, to the fencing since Franny's ligaments were gone this morning and I'm obsessive. I'm actually writing this to distract myself from going out there for the gazillionth time to check on her

So, with no change in Franny's condition ALL DAY, my hubby talks me into going out with him, so he whisks me off to the auction where there are of course the most adorable baby bunnies in the history of cuteness!
We bought a few and we rescued one little baby whose eye was obviously damaged to the point of blindness and a bit of infection, so we rinsed her eye with a mild saline solution and gently wiped away the nasty goop. It's already looking better, swollen, but no longer goopy, so I'm hoping she'll be okay. If it gets worse, we'll have to take her to the vets, but for now, she's in our home nursing station until further notice

So, I'm overrun with bunnies, waiting to be overrun with goaties, and my back is killing me because I overworked it by overdoing it when I know I shouldn't because my back is a mess and I'm now officially ranting! lol
This will make me feel better:


Cheeki is doing marvelous! He's the sweetest little sweetie He's already coming out of his cage to hang out with me and keep me company and make me laugh at his cute little antics
See, budgie therapy! Works every time

Another busy day!
Started off by staying up until 3 am waiting for Franny to kid, which she waited until 11 am to do
Then we went out to pick up our new buckling for fall breeding, so that was a fun 5 hour round trip! Got home and found the turkeys had escaped and were prancing around the yard like they owned the joint
Got them all back in and now we've got to go get the hatching eggs that I was hoping to set yesterday, but the chickens weren't cooperating.
So, long story short, I'm exhausted and ready to fall over!
Pictures of the turkey escapade and new ND buckling (he's still stressed, so doesn't look great yet, but he'll settle in):

Today was a busy puppy day!
All my sweet little babies have deposits placed on them (Except Koda of course!). I'm torn between and
I'm going to miss their cute little faces soon. Can't believe they're 6 weeks old already!
Did a bunny photo shoot today and got another 50 feet of turkey fencing done. Just another 50 + feet to go! I will soon know how big my turkey run is. I know it's more than 150 feet, anyway. Is that too much space for 4 turkeys? Maybe I'll throw a goat in there this summer
To round out my day, I helped my friend out with mucking out stalls (she has horses). The poor guys are shedding like crazy now that the weather is finally turning from brutally cold to moderately cold! Yay, moderately cold!
Tomorrow should get the turkey fencing done and I also have to go to the dentist
Franny is taking good care of her little boys. They are just so adorable! Amazing how tiny they are! I can hardly remember Miracle and Chance being that tiny - though I know they were!
I love farming!!!!

Got the turkey run completely done the other day! Finally, the turkeys can enjoy..the, well, two feet or so of snow... The main fencing was done, I just had to raise it a few more feet. Once the ground is thawed, we'll be digging some wire under as well.
At least the sun is shining!

The bucklings are doing well. I can't get over how adorable the little brown kid is : The little roan is cute too, but just such typical colouring that it's not as fun Which is why the little brown may be sold already! Who could resist him?

I'm thinking that it may be time to start milking Franny. I don't relish the idea of wrangling her, but at the same time, I really would like to have some more milk for my bottle babies and every bit of real goat milk I can pour down their throats the happier I am! Of course I can hardly wait to be able to drink it for myself too!

Cheeki is doing good. She's so adorable and I already feel like we're bonding so well! I even went out and bought her some fun toys the other day! My absolute favorite picture of her, I think!

Other than that, I'm just keeping busy with regular chores, housework, and entertaining my younger family members

What a great family you have, SAfarm. You sure are a busy person. And you sound like you couldn't be happier. So glad for you, and yours.. I'll keep in touch, if you don't mind.
Be well; Kinder.

kinder said:

What a great family you have, SAfarm. You sure are a busy person. And you sound like you couldn't be happier. So glad for you, and yours.. I'll keep in touch, if you don't mind.
Be well; Kinder.

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Thanks, Kinder, please do keep in touch

There are obviously down-sides, heartache, worries, and struggles with my farm and my family, but I have a hard time complaining about my life because I've been so blessed and I read about others struggling that have it so much worse than me, I just can't bring myself to carry on about my problems

I had to say goodbye to one of the puppies today Just a few days shy of 7 weeks. I would have preferred to keep her until at least 8 weeks, but her new owner volunteers at a doggy day-care, so she'll get plenty of socialization - which is what the last few weeks with mom and siblings are really all about anyway.

Just the three left now.
My sweet little Koda and the boy and girl that will go next weekend already!

With the weather finally warming up, the fields are turning into mush! Still lots of snow on the ground, but there's slush underneath. It makes for needing rubber boots, but getting icy cold toes!
We picked up another rabbit cage today for a brooder since we also bought about 21 chicks on Friday
Mostly Barred Rock, which is good since we'll have a couple different bloodlines that way, the rest an assorted mix that we'll probably sell.
Yes, now that kidding season is over, hatching season is in full swing. I have 42 eggs in the incubator right now and that's just the beginning!

My niece talked us into getting her a hand-raised budgie next weekend (she fell in love with Cheeki!), so that's what we'll be doing then! So Cheeki will soon have a friend

This week will be clean out the pens week since we did the deep-litter method this winter and with the thaw happening, it's turning into sludge Poor animals! I'll be starting on that project on Monday. I was going to start it today, but we had to drive out and see the budgies, then we went bowling between meals and petstores and regular animal chores and, well, it didn't happen. I would do it tomorrow, but I won't be home for most of the day, so the work has been shifted to Monday

On my way home tomorrow I'm also hoping to pick up a very well built brooder/bunny cage that should fit beautifully in my new shed that I'm planning to get/build for an outdoor brooder!

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.Auhhhhh.!!. Babby chic pic.. And those puppies they are too cute. . They remind me of my Germen Shepherds. So glad you've been able to find good homes, though. You'll feel better once they've settled into there new homes..
As always; Be well, Kinder.